Implications For The Cross Cultural Study Of Parenting And Child Development
The findings below are drawn from studies using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted by UNICEF. Data include more than 200,000 families from a diverse sample of approximately 60 Low and Middle Income (LMICS) around the world.
Figure 1: Countries in MICS
The statistical methods employed in this work consist of various forms of multilevel models which are able to synthesize results across samples from multiple sources. Thus these findings are applicable to a diverse variety of cultures and contexts from around the globe.
When studied in global context, across a diverse group of Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), these results have important implications for reducing violence against children, for improving family and child well-being, and for the cross-cultural study of parenting and child development (particularly the origins of aggression and antisocial behavior):
Put more succinctly, there are differences in the disciplinary methods employed by parents–and a modest percentage of these differences are attributable to the country in which parents live–but the effects of various forms of discipline are remarkably consistent.
For attribution, please cite this work as
Grogan-Kaylor (2021, Dec. 28). Interesting and Noteworthy Findings From MICS Analyses. Retrieved from https://agrogan1.github.io/research/MICS-interesting-and-noteworthy-findings/MICS-interesting-and-noteworthy-findings.html
BibTeX citation
@misc{grogan-kaylor2021interesting,
author = {Grogan-Kaylor, Andy},
title = {Interesting and Noteworthy Findings From MICS Analyses},
url = {https://agrogan1.github.io/research/MICS-interesting-and-noteworthy-findings/MICS-interesting-and-noteworthy-findings.html},
year = {2021}
}